Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!robohack!woods
From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B2 memory, floppy drive
Summary: still no go for HD media on 300/400 drives
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.024017.24292@robohack.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 90 02:40:17 GMT
References: <2182@becker.UUCP> <1069@icus.islp.ny.us> <860@red12.qtp.ufl.edu> <1990Jan17.062113.16770@robohack.UUCP> <11036@attcan.UUCP>
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In article <11036@attcan.UUCP> ram@attcan.UUCP (Richard Meesters) writes:
> Ah well, life goes on, doesn't it Greg?  I gave this a try and found out 
> something very interesting.  It seems that the HD diskettes will format just
> fine on my 3B2/600, but the 3B2/300 just doesn't seem to like them at all.

I just tried again on my 400.  I have a new floppy drive since I last
made this test.  The new floppy is a 1/2 height model, and looks and
feels just like the average PC drive.  However, still no-go.  'fmtfop -v'
returned with and I/O error after working over the whole disk.

I wonder if there are driver differences too.  I am running 3.1v2.  I
would also bet the diskette controller on the 600 is different than
the 300/400 series, since the motherboards are different.
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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